interplanetary SSTO

[blazing angel]

Make an interplanetary SSTO simple. You may only use mechjeb for mods. Include a screen shot before launch, in orbit around the targe body and in orbit around Kerbin. You will take off refuel if you wish and go to the target body out side of Kerbin's SOI and return to Kerbin.

Include the screenshots mentioned above, you craft name and how you got into orbit.

Optional lander and craft download and any other pictures you wish.

Only mechjeb mod. (1.9.8 or 2).

point system is as follows:

each body outwards or inwards from kerbin is worth 5 points times the distance away from kerbin

each moon in orbit around the body traveld to that is stopped at is worth another 3

looks are up to 5

a lander is a bonus 15 points

a rover is 20 points

a maned landing is 10

a successful landing on kerbin is 25

a second planet visited points added in accordance to above

a slingshot is 5

and moho is an automatic 20

Have fun

Edited May 6, 2013 by blazing angel

[blazing angel]

point system will be established

[lump]

this is my entry, at 2880 fuel it can get out of the solar system,

i will post the required screenshots as soon as i can, i think i will go to Duna or Eve.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/26634-Possibly-the-smallest-Rocket-only-SSTO-to-escape-Kerbol-%28the-sun%29-to-date

[blazing angel]

point system is as follows:

each body outwards or inwards from kerbin is worth 5 points times the distance away from kerbin

each moon in orbit around the body traveld to that is stopped at is worth another 3

looks are up to 5

a lander is a bonus 15 points

a rover is 20 points

a maned landing is 10

a successful landing on kerbin is 25

a second planet visited points added in accordance to above

a slingshot is 5

[blazing angel]

and by times the distance i mean times the number of planest away

[Stochasty]

You shouldn't count inwards on the same scale you count outwards. Eve is easy to get to (about the same difficulty as Duna), but Moho is harder than anything save Eeloo.

Edit:

I might decide to try this. I've got a bunch of SSTO designs lying around, including one capable of landing on and returning from Eeloo (but it's Ion powered, and I don't relish the five-hour burn it takes to make the transfer). If the forums hadn't crashed, I'd link the records of the Duna and Gilly trips I've made.

Edited May 3, 2013 by Stochasty

[blazing angel]

going to moho is 20

[blazing angel]

go ahead and try, it does seem interesting for an SSTO to get to eloo. That is partly the reaston I put up this chalenge, to watch people push SSTOs to the limit.

[lump]

the thing is i never use ion engines because they seam cheap, i could just strap then to my smallest ssto and go anywhere, i used them on a probe once and got to eve in 20 mins but a 20 tonne ship, that ain't gonna be fat.

[blazing angel]

still i want to see where people go with any recourse they can use.